Excerpt from "The Dumb Bitch"

This is my first post and - to be honest - I'm still trying to get the hang of this entire blog concept.  Nevertheless, here's an excerpt from my soon-to-be-released first book, a gritty urban drama called The Dumb Bitch (A Ratchet City Tale): 

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I remember like yesterday the day that changed my momma’s life forever. She was standing at the stove (cooking yet another damn pot of beans) when there was a knock at the door. She sent my brother Reggie to answer it, and when he opened the door there stood a woman dressed in purple bike-in-tights and a gold halter-top.

She looked down at my brother and said, “ Go get Big Ken for me, baby.”

Reggie was about to run and get him when Yogi came to the door behind him and asked the woman what business she had with her husband that couldn’t wait till he came in the street.

The woman looked at my mother, rolled her neck and said, “First off, bitch, he ain’t yo muthafuckin’ husband. He the same thing to you that he is to me – my baby daddy.”

Yogi calmly asked ole girl to follow her into the house to get Big Ken and talk about what was going on. As they reached the kitchen Yogi grabbed the now-scorched pot of beans and threw them in the woman’s face. She then grabbed a knife off the table and commenced to cutting that woman till it was nothing but skin and meat hanging from her face. It was as if she snapped. (It took me years to get the sounds of that lady’s scrams out of my head).

Big Ken heard all the commotion and came running down the hall in his boxers, pistol in hand. As soon as he seen the woman on the floor screaming and holding her face he looked at Yogi and said, “Damn, Yo! Now what we s’pose to eat?”

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